The Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA) involves the creation of a zone in which all electronic payments across Europe are considered domestic. There is no difference between national and intra-European cross border payments. SEPA aims to improve the efficiency of cross-border payments, to defragment national payment markets, and to allow customers to make cashless Euro payments by using a single bank account and payment instruments. SEPA consists of all 27 European Union (EU) member states and includes Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and Monaco. The payment schemes and frameworks ... [more]

The reality for many financial institutions is a transaction processing environment that has evolved through a combination of organic development and a merger or acquisition where case-by-case projects have driven point-to-point implementations. These environments have the following characteristics: - Diverse transaction formats - Varying processing rules and requirements - Many-to-many connections - Broad combinations of technology stacks and platforms Equipped with these environments, financial institutions must track, manage, and report on transactions ... [more]

Electronic data interchange (EDI) was the standard for exchanging business transactions, purchase orders, invoices, shipping notices, and electronic funds transfers for over 25 years. In the last 10 years, EDI evolved with newer technology, especially with the ubiquity of the Internet. Because of these technological advancements, EDI is nearly as easy to use as email and is no longer an option for doing business. Instead, EDI is a business requirement. One of the major concerns of IT and business decision makers responsible for managing supply chains and the activities of their trading ... [more]

Across numerous vertical industries, enterprises are challenged to improve processing efficiency as transactions flow from their business communities to their internal systems and vice versa, simplify management and expansion of the external communities, accommodate customer and supplier preferences, govern the flow of information, enforce policy and standards, and protect sensitive information. Throughout this process, external partners must be on-boarded and off-boarded, information must flow across multiple communications infrastructures, and data must be mapped and transformed for ... [more]

Like IBM® WebSphere® eXtreme scale, WebSphere DataPower® XC10 Version 2 provides business and technical benefits to new and existing WebSphere Commerce deployments. This IBM Redpapers™ publication provides an overview of these benefits and explains how to configure WebSphere Commerce to use IBM WebSphere DataPower XC10. It also covers the technical aspects of installation, configuration, and monitoring. The paper is designed for current and potential users of WebSphere Commerce who want to add the DataPower XC10 appliance to their ... [more]

The above is a list of IBM Redbooks and Redpapers on Commerce, showing most recently published first. Most of these publications are available in Adobe PDF format and may be viewed online or downloaded for offline viewing and printing. Read our How to buy page for details on how to order a bound hardcopy.